On this 07 December, LX A.S. 9sense podcast episode, Magister Campbell will discuss how drugs are used in Satanic Ritual, Shifting Power to the President, and John Wick. Join LIVE in YouTube chat and share your thoughts! This episode will be added to the audio podcast feed the following day.
Time Stamps:
- 0:00 Intro
- 15:38 1. The Devil’s Advocate – How drugs are used in Satanic Ritual
- 32:13 2. Infernal Informant – Shifting Power to the President
- 55:47 3. Creature Feature – John Wick
- 1:18:40 Outro
Show Notes
Intro
Welcome to 9sense. 9sense is a Satanic perspective of our modern world. I am your host Magister Campbell, it’s great to have you. It’s December 7th and I’ve got a hell-of-a show for you this week!
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Discussion
1. The Devil’s Advocate
- Letters to the High Priest
- Letters from the Devil
- National Insider – October 5, 1969
- How are drugs used in Satanic Ritual?
- They are not used.
- Historically they’re used to control subjects not magicians
- Why do people take drugs?
- To escape reality
- It’s not real
- The primary requisite for ceremonial magic is Control
- Drugs are wonderful for enslaving people
- Masochism
- Many people aren’t happy unless they are miserable.
2. Infernal Informant
- Conservative Project at Supreme Court Meets Trump’s Push to Oust Officials
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-independent-agencies.html
- As a young staff member in the Reagan administration, John G. Roberts Jr. was part of a group of lawyers who pushed for more White House control over independent government agencies.
- The “time may be ripe to reconsider the existence of such entities, and take action to bring them back within the executive branch,” the future chief justice of the United States advised the White House counsel in a 1983 memo. Independent agencies, he wrote, were a “Constitutional anomaly.”
- Once he ascended to the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roberts joined other conservatives on the bench in a series of rulings that have chipped away at Congress’s power to constrain the president’s authority to fire independent regulators.
- That decadeslong project of the conservative legal movement collides on Monday with President Trump’s desire to oust officials across the government, in defiance of federal laws meant to protect their jobs and shield them from politics.
- The result, the Supreme Court’s recent decisions suggest, is that the majority will likely side with Mr. Trump in a move that could significantly shift power from Congress to the president and usher in a dramatic change in the way the federal government is structured.
- “This is not a bolt out of the blue,” said Deepak Gupta, a lawyer representing an agency official in a separate case who was also fired by the president.
- “There is a tendency to see this as merely part of a recent short-term drama about President Trump, but really a majority of the justices have long been sympathetic to the argument that the Trump administration is making here — and that’s a view that transcends this presidency,” he said.
- Monday’s case specifically tests whether President Trump can fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, simply because he says she does not align with his agenda — despite a law that says the president can only remove commissioners for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”
- The administration is asking the justices to toss a 90-year-old precedent that said the Constitution allowed laws like that one and let Congress put limits on the president’s authority to dismiss some quasi-independent government officials.
- The court’s ruling, expected by the end of June, has implications for more than two dozen other agencies that are charged with protecting consumers, workers, the environment and nuclear safety, and have traditionally been insulated from complete presidential control by similar laws.
- Since he returned to the White House, Mr. Trump has repeatedly ousted Democratic leaders of independent agencies, including at the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, to make way for replacements who share his policy priorities.
- A number of the officials have sued. The Supreme Court has generally allowed their firings to take effect but has done so in temporary emergency orders while their lawsuits proceeded through lower courts. In Ms. Slaughter’s case, the court will render a final and lasting judgment on the legality of Mr. Trump’s firings, a major test for the justices to determine how far to expand presidential power.
- In January, the Supreme Court will separately consider whether the president has the power to fire Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve Board governor. In that case, the justices have allowed Ms. Cook to remain in her post for now, signaling that the central bank’s history may mean it can be uniquely insulated from presidential interference.
- The Trump administration’s robust view of the executive is being weighed by a conservative Supreme Court majority that has also embraced the so-called unitary executive theory. That is the idea, dating back to the Reagan administration, that the Constitution vests all executive power in the president and that he must be able to control everything the executive branch does.
- Some conservatives on the court have been signaling for years that they were eager to overturn the precedent, decided in 1935, that protects independent agencies.
- In a 2010 decision, Chief Justice Roberts said the president’s power generally includes “the authority to remove those who assist him in carrying out his duties. Without such power, the president could not be held fully accountable for discharging his own responsibilities.”
- Then, in 2020, during Mr. Trump’s first term, the court took a major step toward expanding the president’s power to fire independent officials. In a 5-to-4 decision, the court said the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was unconstitutional because it did not allow the president to fire the director without cause.
- But the majority decision, again written by the chief justice, made a distinction between government agencies run by a single director and those led by multimember commissions that “do not wield substantial executive power.”
- In its recent emergency orders, the court, with three justices nominated by Mr. Trump, has telegraphed strongly that it is now poised to give the president more direct control over those agencies as well.
- “Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the president,” the majority said in an unsigned opinion in May, “he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents.”
- Such orders have drawn vigorous dissents from the court’s three liberal justices, who accused the majority of displaying “impatience” to decide the fate of the 1935 precedent, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. The majority, Justice Elena Kagan wrote in September, seemed determined to “extinguish the agencies’ bipartisanship and independence.”
- Created in 1914, the Federal Trade Commission protects consumers from deceptive practices and monopoly power. Like other independent agencies, it was designed by Congress to be shielded from politics. It is led by five commissioners who serve staggered seven-year terms; no more than three can be members of the same party.
- Ms. Slaughter, first nominated by Mr. Trump in 2018, was renominated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2023, and unanimously confirmed by the Senate to a term that expires in 2029. Mr. Trump dismissed her in March in an email that said her service was “inconsistent with my administration’s priorities.” She then sued.
- Mr. Trump dismissed a second Democrat, Alvaro Bedoya, as well. He initially challenged his firing but later resigned, citing financial pressures. As a result, the F.T.C. has been led by only Republicans since March.
- Lower-court judges sided with Ms. Slaughter. A district court judge said that her firing was illegal and pointed to the job protections upheld by the 1935 decision.
- Echoing the chief justice’s arguments dating to the 1980s, D. John Sauer, the solicitor general, told the justices that those tenure protections are unconstitutional because they infringe on the president’s power to run the executive branch. The heads of government agencies are essentially the president’s “alter ego” and his ability to oust regulators is an “indispensable tool of control,” he said in a filing.
- The F.T.C. regulates matters ranging from credit cards to horseracing, he added, and Congress cannot empower “unelected agency heads to wield executive power walled off from presidential control and electoral accountability.”
- Pointing to the recent Supreme Court decisions, he wrote that if the 1935 precedent “is not already a dead letter, this court should overrule it.”
- (As a secondary matter, Mr. Sauer said courts have no power to reinstate Ms. Slaughter even if she was improperly removed.)
- The administration’s position has the backing of former Republican attorneys general Edwin Meese and Michael B. Mukasey and groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the New Civil Liberties Union.
- Ms. Slaughter’s legal team is led by Amit Agarwal, a former law clerk to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. He contested the administration’s view of the Constitution’s text and of history and urged the court not to transfer to the president “vast new powers that Congress and prior presidents, working together, chose not to vest in the president alone.”
- Her lawyers noted that in the years since the court first held that Congress could adopt job protections for independent agency chiefs, 15 presidents of both parties worked within that system and accepted that F.T.C. commissioners could not be removed without good cause. Congress has also created dozens of new independent agencies that have wide-ranging responsibilities.
- Overruling that precedent decades later “would profoundly destabilize institutions that are now inextricably intertwined with the fabric of American governance,” Mr. Agarwal wrote.
- Ms. Slaughter’s position has support from former chairs of the commission nominated by presidents of both parties, who say the president has plenty of power to shape the agency’s agenda, as well as dozens of former high-level Republican administration officials. Those officials cite recent scholarship that suggests that Congress has had broad authority since the founding era to structure the executive branch and to limit the president’s power to fire people. That argument is designed to appeal to the court’s conservatives who consider themselves originalists, interpreting the Constitution based on its meaning when adopted.
- David Strauss, a University of Chicago law professor who worked in the solicitor general’s office during the Reagan administration, said the case poses “a test for people who consider themselves originalists” because the historical record of the issue at the founding is “at least equivocal.”
- Despite the debate among originalist scholars, the court’s three liberal justices have said in recent dissents that their conservative colleagues have made clear where they are headed.
- In September, Justice Kagan wrote that the court’s majority, order by order, “has handed full control” of a series of agencies to the president.
- The majority, she added, appeared to be “raring” to overturn the 1935 precedent. Still, she wrote, “until the deed is done,” it would remain in effect.
3. Creature Feature
- John Wick
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick
- created by Derek Kolstad
- Gun-Fu
- Log Line
- Wick is a legendary hitman who is reluctantly drawn back into the criminal underworld after retiring.
- Spinoffs
- the prequel comic book series John Wick: The Book of Rules (2017–2019),
- the prequel television miniseries The Continental (2023),
- and the spinoff film Ballerina (2025).
- Notes
- considered one of the greatest action film series of all time
- The films have earned a collective gross of more than $1 billion worldwide.
- John Wick (2014)
- John Wick is a retired assassin who returns to his old ways after a group of Russian gangsters steal his car and kill his puppy which was given to him by his late wife Helen.
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
- Forced to honor a debt from his past life, John Wick is sent to assassinate a target he has no wish to kill, where he faces betrayal at the hands of his sponsor.
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
- John Wick is declared excommunicado after killing an international crime lord on Continental grounds, where he sets out to save himself from bounty hunters and assassins.
- John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
- John Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out more powerful players in the underworld from different countries.
- The Continental: From the World of John Wick (2023)
- tells the background story of how Winston Scott, in an alternate history 1970s, came to his position as proprietor of the New York branch of “The Continental” chain of hotels, safe havens for professional assassins on the grounds of which no business may ever take place.
- From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (2025)
- involves a young woman who is raised to be an assassin, and seeks revenge on the hitmen who killed her family.
- John Wick: Chapter 5 (TBA)
- Stahelski explained that the plot will not feature the High Table, and will instead see Wick facing new threats, after completing his confrontations with the previous organization.
- Untitled Caine film (TBA)
- The project is described as a modern-day classic Hong Kong-style kung-fu movie
- Untitled animated prequel film (TBA)
- the plot will take place chronologically before the events of the first movie, and depict the character’s legendary “impossible task” that had allowed him to leave the High Table to be married; an event which was referenced in previous movies.
- John Wick: Under the High Table (TBA)
- The plot of the series will take place chronologically after the events of Chapter 4 and will follow new characters who strive to usurp the High Table, while returning cast members of the franchise seek to maintain the current order.
- Other potential projects
- Atomic Blonde crossover
- Nobody crossover
- Sofia: Halle Berry
- The Bowery King: Laurence Fishburne
- Ballerina sequel
- Untitled film: Samurai-Western
- Wick Is Pain,
- a documentary film about the franchise, was released at Beyond Fest on May 8, 2025, and then on digital platforms the next day. The documentary is directed by Jeffrey Doe.
Outro
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